tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git secretmemfd/v3 head: 807167124581cd8d39ff386e86fb5f138e650e26 commit: a7c74dfbd307d0fdde021d1da82bccbdd69655cc [3/6] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas compiler: riscv64-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp(a)intel.com&gt; cppcheck warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) file = alloc_file_pseudo(inode, secretmem_mnt, "secretmem", ^ mm/secretmem.c:154:0: note: Variable 'file' is reassigned a value before the old one has been used. struct file *file = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); ^ mm/secretmem.c:166:7: note: Variable 'file' is reassigned a value before the old one has been used. file = alloc_file_pseudo(inode, secretmem_mnt, "secretmem", ^ # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git/commit/?id... git remote add rppt https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rppt/linux.git git fetch --no-tags rppt secretmemfd/v3 git checkout a7c74dfbd307d0fdde021d1da82bccbdd69655cc vim +/file +166 mm/secretmem.c 151 152 static struct file *secretmem_file_create(unsigned long flags) 153 { 154 struct file *file = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); 155 struct secretmem_ctx *ctx; 156 struct inode *inode; 157 158 inode = alloc_anon_inode(secretmem_mnt->mnt_sb); 159 if (IS_ERR(inode)) 160 return ERR_CAST(inode); 161 162 ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL); 163 if (!ctx) 164 goto err_free_inode; 165 167 O_RDWR, &secretmem_fops); 168 if (IS_ERR(file)) 169 goto err_free_ctx; 170 171 mapping_set_unevictable(inode->i_mapping); 172 173 inode->i_mapping->private_data = ctx; 174 inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &secretmem_aops; 175 176 /* pretend we are a normal file with zero size */ 177 inode->i_mode |= S_IFREG; 178 inode->i_size = 0; 179 180 file->private_data = ctx; 181 182 ctx->mode = flags & SECRETMEM_MODE_MASK; 183 184 return file; 185 186 err_free_ctx: 187 kfree(ctx); 188 err_free_inode: 189 iput(inode); 190 return file; 191 } 192 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all@lists.01.org